A Recent Rare Arrival

Remember those The Gap television commercials that featured Gen X dancers Lindy Hopping in their baggy khakis to Louis Prima? Well, Frank got his mitts on this gem of a jukebox pressing from the late 90s swing revival.

What is a jukebox pressing, you ask, Frank? Jukebox pressings were 45s that were produced in very limited quantities for your local bar or diner’s jukebox. From the ‘50s onward, jukeboxes primarily used the same 45s that you had in your home. However, by the '90s, few people were buying 45s anymore (the closest was a CD single), and pressing plants were only producing them for jukeboxes, which, like swing music, experienced a revival in the late 90s (thanks to movies like Doug Liman’s Swingers.)

The whole swing music revival was very short-lived and beauties like this, only released as a single for the jukebox, were tossed into the dustbin of history.

It should be noted, of course, that a decade earlier, when David Lee Roth left Van Halen for a solo career, he helped revive interest in Louis Prima by successfully covering the B-side of this.